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Southern Humanities Council Conference Call For Papers

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 09:59 AM PDT


From Keith Harmon, information on the Southern Humanities Council Conference

Call for Papers
Southern Humanities Council Conference
January 31-February 3, 2013The Hilton Savannah Desoto, Savannah, Georgia
"Boundaries: Real and Imagined"The 2013 Southern Humanities Council Conference invites proposals for papers on the theme "Boundaries: Real and Imagined." The topic is interdisciplinary and invites proposals from all disciplines and areas of study, as well as creative pieces including but not limited to performance, music, art, and literature. Send proposals of 300-500 words to Mark Ledbetter at shcouncil@gmail.com or if sending by U.S. Postal Service,  Mark Ledbetter, Executive Director, SHC, Box 2546, The College of St. Rose, 432 Western Avenue, Albany, NY 12203.  If possible, send all proposals by email.  Proposals are due by December 15, 2012. The conference registration fee is $100.00 or $85 for unaffiliated scholars and graduate students. Membership in SHC is $30.00 or $15 for unaffiliated scholars and graduate students.  Conference participants must pay membership and registration to attend and/or present at SHC.  You may visit our website at http://southernhumanities.ning.com/. Topics are not limited to but may address any of the following areas.
Pairings are not intended to imply binary thought, but rather to suggest a tradition of boundaries, real and imagined, for your considerations.
"Boundaries: Real and Imagined"
SexualityCulture
GeographyEast and West
GenderSocial Class
Race/EthnicityPerformance
The Academy/DisciplinesReligion/Science
Humanities/SciencePoetry
Fiction/Non-FictionMemory/History
Body/SoulMusic
Virtues/VicesLove/Lust
Pleasure/PainPleasure/Desire
ArtSelf/Other
Human/AnimalHuman Beings/Machine
Sacred/SecularLonging/Restraint/Constraint

Remembering James Otis

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 08:25 AM PDT


Thomas K. Clancy, West Virgina University College of Law; University of Mississippi School of Law, has published The Importance of James Otis in volume 82 of the Mississippi Law Journal (2012). Here is the abstract.

Historical analysis remains a fundamentally important tool to interpret the words of the Fourth Amendment and no historical event is more important that James Otis' argument in the Writs of Assistance Case in 1761. The Writs case and the competing views articulated by the advocates continue to serve as a template in the never-ending struggle to accommodate individual security and governmental needs. In that case, James Otis first challenged British search and seizure practices and offered an alternative vision of proper search and seizure principles. No authority preceding Otis had articulated so completely the framework for the search and seizure requirements that were ultimately embodied in the Fourth Amendment. More fundamentally, Otis' importance then and now stems not from the particulars of his argument; instead, he played and should continue to play an inspirational role for those seeking to find the proper accommodation between individual security and governmental needs. Otis proposed a framework of search and seizure principles designed to protect individual security. James Otis, his vision, and his legacy have become largely forgotten outside a small circle of Fourth Amendment scholars. This essay is a modest attempt to recall his importance for contemporary construction of the Fourth Amendment.
Download the article from SSRN at the link. 
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